Feddit UK update: we're not going anywhere

Hi all, sorry for a lack of updates but there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes and events moved rather rapidly.

I recently posted that we were going to have to move to another instance because our only Admin was missing and problems looked to be piling up.

Fortunately, Tom dropped me a line the other day and he has updated the instance and made GreatAlbatross and myself Admins.

So the immediate crisis has been averted and we’ve fallen back to the original plan which was get more Admins in place and work to ensure there’s no single point of failure, so any one of us could get hit by a bus (bagsy not me) and the instance will carry on.

Soooo bear with us while we thrash out the details of what else needs doing to ensure the continuity of the instance and while I figure out what all the new buttons do (hopefully not by mashing them all at once just to see what happens).

In the meantime there are likely problems that need fixing. I know, for example, that some are still having email verification problems and have been waiting a while, so I’ll figure out how to resolve this and work through the pinned post here. If you have this problem then post there and we’ll get it sorted.

If there are any other issues you want to flag up for attention then you can do so here or contact one of the new admins.

And, finally, thanks to everyone for their enthusiasm for this instance in the other thread and elsewhere, if the folks on here hadn’t formed a great community that they felt was worth the time and effort to save we wouldn’t be here now with the future looking more secure. Tom built the house but you all made it a home. So carry on…

edit 1: I’ll keep tagging things on as I think of them. Firstly, we’ll be keeping the Matrix space - it’ll be our fallback if the server goes down and provides people with an encrypted (and private if needed) channel of communication. If you add your Matrix ID to your profile it adds a secure DMs button to your.profile, so Matrix and Lemmy are integrated to a degree.

Mex,
@Mex@feddit.uk avatar

This post has been up for a month time to consider unpinning it?

alchemy88,
@alchemy88@lemmy.team avatar

Great you guys managed to sort things out. Glad you’ll still be around :)

i_am_not_a_robot,
@i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk avatar

Note to self: always subscribe to the “instance news” community so chaos like this doesn’t pass by unnoticed.

ilovecheese,
@ilovecheese@feddit.uk avatar

Nice one! It’s good to not have to move instance again!

Much appreciation to all those involved in keeping our instance afloat!

(Bagsy not me either!)

Deebster,
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Congrats, I’m glad all those communities don’t have to move!

I was needing a new instance the other day but rejected feddit.uk due to only having a single admin/point of failure. After seeing a few decent-sized instances vanish, I think only personal servers should have just one admin.

Emperor,
@Emperor@feddit.uk avatar

Yes, I think we may have missed out on a lot of members who did their homework before picking an instance, because a single Admin means it could just vanish over night. Our aim is to ensure that we are rock solid on all fronts and can keep rolling as long as people want it to.

The good thing about federation is you can still be an active member here, so I look forward to seeing you out and about.

clara,

we are saved \o/

Mane25,

Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this, honestly, I’m not going to grumble too much because I’m not the one putting in the work - but it felt like a bit of a let-down that all this happened in the first place, and it felt like a fresh start was needed to move on.

rayquetzalcoatl,

You’re still free to move instance if you want :)

Mane25,

I already moved 25 days ago when it became clear it was abandoned. The decision is whether to come back, I hoped I would despite my small complaint, but your comment isn’t exactly making me feel any warmer here…

rayquetzalcoatl,

Oh nice! Where did you move to? Also - It might feel like a let down that the admin was gone, I’m sure he was just busy - but it’s very unlikely to happen again now that there are multiple admins so I think the issue is resolved, really!

Mane25, (edited )

I don’t want to say anything inflammatory since something terrible might have happened to Tom that we don’t know - but it’s definitely not OK to start a community like this, get everyone on-board and established, then fail to appoint admins and disappear without explanation (even if busy) leaving other people to pick up the pieces, unless there’s a very good reason.

And to be honest I’m surprised I seem to be the only one saying that - maybe an explanation from him (if appropriate to share) would smooth things over. I was genuinely excited about the new instance as an opportunity for the UK communities on Lemmy to put a bad situation behind us and move on.

Prking,
@Prking@lemmy.world avatar

I also have concerns because it’s unclear who is paying for the hosting and managing the server itself. We could see a situation where the server goes down and Tom is not available. Do we know if the new admins have access to the server?

Mane25,

It’s also not best security practice to leave an inactive user with admin powers which still seems to be the case here.

cashews_best_nut,

“bagsy not me” - fucking hell it’s probs 30+yrs since I heard that.

GoodKingElliot,
@GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk avatar

“bagsy not me”
What does it mean? I’ve never heard that before, and Google just links song.

cashews_best_nut,

It’s like saying “Shotgun” to make yourself the ‘first’ or ‘the one’ to get - or not get - something.

PhobosAnomaly,

“Jinx 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8”

“you fell oooooooover!”

“You dropped your virgin card look”

…and other such outrageously witty schoolyard humour.

wildeaboutoskar,

Yay great news!

mannycalavera,
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk avatar

Praise be!

Thanks for the updates and the hard work. You’re doing an amazing job!

noodle,
@noodle@feddit.uk avatar

Great stuff. Good on you all for keeping this place alive.

tkc,
@tkc@feddit.uk avatar

Good news guys. Well done for all of your hard work.

Predator,
@Predator@feddit.uk avatar

Could you make this instance have its own baked in old reddit layout with the old.feddit domain like lemmy world and others have, instead of relying on 3rd party domains like opnxng etc?

Emperor,
@Emperor@feddit.uk avatar

Yes, we’ve discussed design ideas including this and it should be relatively straightforward to implement. Hopefully, there’ll be a few to choose from and we are open to suggestions about others. Keep an eye out for an announcement about it once we get everything ironed out.

rah,

\o/

Hossenfeffer,
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Good news! Glad to hear Tom’s ok.

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